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''Three Doors to Death'' is a collection of Nero Wolfe mystery novellas by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1950 — itself collected in the omnibus volume ''Five of a Kind'' (Viking 1961). The book comprises three stories that first appeared in ''The American Magazine'': * "Man Alive" (December 1947) * "Omit Flowers" (November 1948) * "Door to Death" (June 1949) ==Publication history== *1950, New York: The Viking Press, April 21, 1950, hardcover〔Townsend, Guy M., ''Rex Stout: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography'' (1980, New York: Garland Publishing; ISBN 0-8240-9479-4), p. 81〕 :In his limited-edition pamphlet, ''Collecting Mystery Fiction #9, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part I'', Otto Penzler describes the first edition of ''Three Doors to Death'': "Green cloth, front cover and spine printed with black; rear cover blank. Issued in a mainly reddish-orange dust wrapper."〔Penzler, Otto, ''Collecting Mystery Fiction #9, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part I'' (2001, New York: The Mysterious Bookshop, limited edition of 250 copies), p. 25〕 :In April 2006, ''Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine'' estimated that the first edition of ''Three Doors to Death'' had a value of between $300 and $500. The estimate is for a copy in very good to fine condition in a like dustjacket.〔Smiley, Robin H., "Rex Stout: A Checklist of Primary First Editions." ''Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine'' (Volume 16, Number 4), April 2006, p. 33〕 *1950, New York: Viking (Mystery Guild), August 1950, hardcover :The far less valuable Viking book club edition may be distinguished from the first edition in three ways: :: * The dust jacket has "Book Club Edition" printed on the inside front flap, and the price is absent (first editions may be price clipped if they were given as gifts). :: * Book club editions are sometimes thinner and always taller (usually a quarter of an inch) than first editions. :: * Book club editions are bound in cardboard, and first editions are bound in cloth (or have at least a cloth spine).〔Penzler, Otto, ''Collecting Mystery Fiction #9, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part I'', pp. 19–20〕 *1950, London: Collins Crime Club, September 18, 1950, hardcover *1952, New York: Dell (mapback by Rafael de Soto), 1952, #626, paperback *1961, New York: The Viking Press, ''Five of a Kind: The Third Nero Wolfe Omnibus'' (with ''The Rubber Band'' and ''In the Best Families''), July 10, 1961, hardcover *1966, New York: Bantam #F3154, June 1966, paperback *1995, New York: Bantam Crimeline ISBN 0-553-25127-9 February 1995, paperback *2010, New York: Bantam Crimeline ISBN 0-307-75623-8 June 9, 2010, e-book 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Three Doors to Death」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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